2.6 Home - Part 1

Difficult to properly comment on a first part of a two-parter, especially when I haven’t seen the second part! However, this was certainly a promising set-up. The ending, especially, with Commander Adama reaching the decision to put the fleet back together was well done, with some stirring music to gratify the moment further. A bit of cheap emotional wringing never hurt any show once in a while!

Adama’s decision fundamentally brought about the lie in his statement that he had everyone he needed in the fleet despite the people that had left. Given the screw ups with his viper crew and docking procedures, it was very clear that was not the case. So he has learned he needs these people as much as they need him. To be fair, the idea that he was willing to go it alone and leave his son. . . I didn’t really buy that idea, but then Adama’s talk of rage sort of sold the notion on the principle that he was living in denial about his ideas of right and wrong.

Cylon Boomer is an interesting problem for President Laura and the rest. She’s a Cylon, the type that tried to assassinate Adama. And yet she is carrying a human child, and she has also pointed the way towards this temple of Athena, and has saved the skins of the humans by destroying the Centurion.

If they are successful in finding the temple (which I assume they will be) I am not sure what place there will be for Cylon Boomer. She’s found uneasy forgiveness in the rebel group, but I doubt Adama or Tigh will be as forgiving. Which makes things problematic for Helo and, to an extent, Starbuck – who are both seeing worthy qualities in her.

I think I also enjoyed this episode because Gaius was kept to a minimum in it. But that also worries me. Because if he wasn’t busy here that suggests he might be getting a lot more screen-time in future episodes. . . Oh well. For now, there’s a part 2 of this to look forward to and, if it continues in the vein that Season 2 as a whole has set out with, it ought to be a cracker.